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From California: Another Front in the Culture Wars

September 30th, 2011 60 comments

By Hadley Arkes

From California again we get a glimpse of the future – or the future that a political class is consciously seeking to prepare for us in reshaping the culture. During the summer the legislature enacted, and Governor Jerry Brown signed into law, SB48, as an amendment to “the Education Code, relating to instruction.” That Code had already made ample provision to instruct the children of California in the contributions made by all racial and ethnic groups supplying votes for politicians. But there was an appreciation also for the contributors who were “entrepreneurs” and labor unions, and whose stories deserved to be told. With SB48 the legislature took a further step by adding: “Pacific Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans.” Read more…

How the Devil’s law firm helps to corrupt kids

September 14th, 2011 4 comments

by Robert Knight

If you were the devil, what would be your most important mission, other than inventing false religions?

It would be to corrupt innocent children. Read more…

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Court sides with lesbian parent

September 9th, 2011 16 comments

by Charlie Butts

The Nebraska Supreme Court has granted child custody rights to the former lesbian partner of a biological mother.

Susan Schwerdtfeger broke up with her lesbian partner five years after the birth of her son through in vitro fertilization. She told the court that her former partner did not pay to help support the youngster — while Teri Latham, the former partner, sought visitation rights because she shared in the cost of the IVF procedure and had tried to visit the child since the breakup. Read more…

Update: CA schools and SB 48 (LGBT history curriculum)

September 7th, 2011 23 comments

Back in July, the California legislature passed SB 48.  It mandates that all public schools must include positive discussions of the sexual orientations of transgender, bisexual, and gay Americans when teaching their contributions to history.  This includes rewriting text books and using supplemental discussion materials. Read more…

George Gilder on “The Israel Test,” Obama, the Internet…and the Gays?

August 31st, 2011 1 comment

Gilder’s analysis of marriage abolition via redefinition is excellent.

 

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LGBT a ‘desirable’ trait at UCC-affiliated college

August 30th, 2011 9 comments

What’s to keep students from lying for the sake of a scholarship?

by Bob Kellogg

Is being lesbian, “gay,” bisexual, or transgender a special talent? FRC’s Peter Sprigg says a church-affiliated college in Illinois apparently thinks so.

Elmhurst College in suburban Chicago has added to its application form a question regarding sexual orientation, making it the first school in the U.S. to do so. Reportedly in an effort to increase campus diversity, the 3,000-plus-student school is asking applicants: “Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT community?” (See earlier story) Read more…

Meet the co-parents: friends not lovers

August 22nd, 2011 Comments off

What’s it like to have a child with someone who’s a friend but not a lover? More and more people are doing just that, to satisfy their broodiness. Helen Croydon investigates.

Seven years ago, when Sabrina Morgan, 33, was single and desperate for a child, she found herself chatting to Kam Wong, 41, a gay man who was longing to be a father, in an online fertility forum. ‘I instantly thought he was genuine, down-to-earth, laidback and flexible,’ says Sabrina. Read more…

Monogamish

August 22nd, 2011 21 comments

We often protest when homophobes insist that same sex marriage will change marriage for straight people too. But in some ways, they’re right. Here’s how gay relationships will change the institution—but for the better. By Ari Karpel

When birth control pills were making Megan’s sex drive almost nonexistent, she told her boyfriend, Colin, what many gay men in a similar position might say to theirs: “If you want to have sex, feel free to sleep with someone else; just don’t tell me about it.” Read more…

Rainbow Connection? Online Push Under Way for Bert and Ernie to Get Married on ‘Sesame Street’

August 10th, 2011 10 comments

Really? Isn’t this a little much?

An online push is under way to pressure the producers of “Sesame Street” into having Bert and Ernie get married.

More than 900 people have signed a petition about the pair of platonic puppets on Change.org as of early Wednesday. Read more…

It Gets Better – the youth campaign that makes everything worse

August 4th, 2011 70 comments

by Mary Rice Hasson

How can life get better for sexually confused young people if they cut themselves off from their families and abandon themselves to sex?

For LGBT teens who face adversity and intolerance…There’s no place in society for hatred and bullying…You have an amazing future in front of you…
And an entire community in your corner…We promise you. It gets better
. Read more…

Suicide up to 14 times more likely for “queer” groups

July 26th, 2011 95 comments

by Carolyn Moynihan

Australian government sources reveal that homosexuals and people of other self-identified genders are much more likely to attempt suicide than the general community.

Federal Minister for Mental Health and Ageing, Paul Butler, says: Read more…

Michelle Bachmann and Ex-Gays

July 18th, 2011 23 comments

I Am a Man

By Greg Quinlan
Why have gay activists instigated media attention over ex-gays and the husband of Presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann?
Apparently, Mr. Bachmann, who has a PhD in clinical psychology, operates several counseling centers which also offer services to homosexual clients seeking to overcome unwanted same-sex attractions.  But because even one ex-gay proves that homosexual behavior is not innate or immutable, the gay lobby’s fear of their former members results in false claims and attacks aimed at preventing homosexuals from exercising their right to self-determination. They cannot bear to have even one homosexual leave homosexuality, hence their outrage at Dr. Bachmann.  Read more…

Gay, Catholic, and Doing Fine

July 13th, 2011 73 comments

Steve Gershom (a pseudonym) is a gay Catholic man in his late twenties. His blog, stevegershom.com, has been around for some months, but he has just decided to make it public. It’s original, funny, poignant — and culturally important. You can also find him on Twitter as stevegershom. I am profoundly grateful to Steve for agreeing to write this post for the Bubble. Read more…

Another coffin nail for US public education

July 13th, 2011 58 comments

by Kevin Ryan

California’s new gay-friendly curriculum raises questions about the future of government-run schools.

Earlier this month, the left-leaning California State Legislature overwhelmingly passed The FAIR Education Act (SB 48) and has sent the bill on Governor Jerry Brown for what will surely be a celebratory signing. The FAIR Education Act is the seventh sexual indoctrination law to teach the state’s children to regard homosexuality, transsexuality (sex-changes operations) and bisexuality as good and natural. This is another in an impressive string of legal victories by gay activists. On the other hand, it further fuels a growing national discontent with public education. Read more…

Sex at Work?

July 6th, 2011 7 comments

by Frank Turek

Are you supposed to have sex at work? I guess it depends on your profession, but for most of us the answer is “no.” Why then is corporate America obsessed with training about sex? Read more…

Wrong Marriage Debate Again

June 28th, 2011 18 comments

By Mona Charen

If only lower income heterosexuals were as keen to marry as some homosexuals, the United States would be a much stronger country.

Supporters of gay marriage (most prominently The New York Times, which reported New York’s legalization of such unions last week with about as much hoopla as it did the Japanese surrender in 1945) are ecstatic. Read more…

Same-sex parenting desires trump children’s rights

June 22nd, 2011 63 comments

by Katherine Spackman

Australian states follow the crowd in allowing the radical re-ordering of children’s lives.

Across Australia homosexual activists are seeking to redefine marriage to include same-sex relationships. Fortunately, although to some surprisingly and disappointingly, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has affirmed her personal support of marriage remaining what it always has been, a commitment between a man and a woman. Read more…

Parental rights, decency out the window

June 7th, 2011 25 comments

by Becky Yeh

A California pro-family group says lawmakers’ decision to create a holiday in honor of an openly homosexual politician has dealt a detrimental blow to the state’s school children.

In an email to SaveCalifornia.com, Deanna Aguire of Moreno Valley told the pro-family organization that her daughter and students at Moreno Valley High School were forced to attend a Gay-Straight Alliance rally in honor of the late San Francisco politician, Harvey Milk. Aguire’s daughter told the teacher she did not want to go to the rally, and only after persistence did the teacher allow her to opt out. Read more…

Ruth Institute’s Latest Quiz Was…

June 3rd, 2011 37 comments

What percentage of US children lives in households headed by same sex couples?

The correct answer was D. Less than 4 tenths of one percent, or .4%.

All these numbers come from combing information about gays and lesbians from Census Snapshot, US, 2007, 1 with information from the US Census Bureau, American Community Survey,2 describing the general population. Read more…

This is how they fight…

June 2nd, 2011 10 comments

 

They’re the ones who control what gets broadcast to your television.  This is how they convince your neighbors, your children, your society.

They don’t want you to think.  They don’t want you to question what would happen if their plans come to fruition.  They just want you to watch, and be entertained.  Eventually, if you mind is sufficiently numb, you will come to agree.